Science matters

Institutions, governments and countries all have structural inertia. I worked for several years teaching science in The Institute. Science h...

When I was young [in England, Ireland was ambivalent about WWs, poppies] Armistice Day was still marked on the 11th of November, with a 2 mi...

On dit que The definition of stupidity is doing things over and over hoping for a different result. It's defo like that with me and let...

In the 1991, the fellows of Trinity College Dublin elected a new Provost, a well regarded Classical scholar who wrote the book s on Cicero....

I've been on a math-for-norms book binge. Singh then Eastaway and now Jordan Ellenberg's How not to be Wrong (2014). Which is the s...

Sometime in the 1970s Coillte, the semi-state forestry firm, acquired one of the old steadings in the hills above us and planted it all with...

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;  Thus unlamented let me die;  Steal from the world, and not a stone  Tell where I lie. When I was in Gra...